The UK Border Agency has been accused of causing "chaos" in the student visa system - as a university stripped of its ability to sponsor international students announced they would challenge the ruling in the High Court.

MPs on the influential Public Accounts Committee said the UKBA's decision to introduce new requirements for student visas in 2009 without ensuring how they could be controlled was "poorly planned".

Speaking on Tuesday morning, Public Accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge said the UKBA needed to "get a grip".

The select committee's report follows controversy after London Metropolitan University's licence to bring in students from outside the EU was revoked.

UKBA said it had found more than a quarter of the university's international students were not legitimate. But London Met accused UKBA officers of "ignoring information that was made available to them when they conducted their audit".

But students affected by the decision said the decision reflected badly on Britain. Syed Rumman, Vice-President education officer and former law student at London Met told The Huffington Post UK "the whole world is watching and they will learn Britain isn't the place to come for an education."